Pakistan animal shelter feels financial pressure of rising costs

Описание: (25 Jan 2023)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Karachi, Pakistan - 20 January 2023
1. Animal rescue service ACF staff member putting on protective gloves, cat in cage
2. Rescue staff removing cat from cage, inspecting injuries and placing it in the animal carrier
3. Rescue staff leaving the house with the cat
4. Member of public, who initially brought the cat inside the house, signing documents to hand over the cat to ACF staff
5. Cat in carrier
6. Various of cat being taken to van for transport to animal shelter
7. SOUNDBITE: (English/Urdu) Nasir Arshad, member of public who reported the injured cat to ACF:
"I was on my way back home from doing groceries, when I saw this cat in pain, I suspect the dogs might have attacked it, because from the side I could see the flesh was visible, from the side to the bottom, and the cat was constantly bleeding. So it took me a while, I called home and asked them to bring some food for the cat, but then I brought the cat home. She stayed with me for two days, I think. Initially the wound dried up, but then I think, through the night it scratched it and it started bleeding again, and she's in pain."
8. ACF van after arriving at shelter first aid clinic, staff getting cat
9. Various of rescued dogs at shelter
10. Various of injured eagles in cages
11. Various of animals including donkeys, cows and goats
12. Various of cat receiving medical treatment
13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ayesha Chundrigar, Founder, Ayesha Chundrigar Foundation:
"But because we spread so much awareness through social media, through our work, on the street, with the rescues, our rescue van goes out everyday, then we have a rescue call center, people call us, we go, we pick up animals, so the more, and again these are people who've seen our work, they know this exists, so the more people find out, the more they call us, which is brilliant – our team goes out, we rescue the animal we bring them back to our sanctuary, but then the more the costs go up as well, because then the fuel prices go up, the van is out constantly, the number of animals increase at the sanctuary, the food costs go up, the medicine costs go up. So this is one of those unpredictable climates where I've got to keep adapting and adjusting to the rescue load of the day for example. There might be be 20 rescues in one day, 10 rescue on the other day, five the next, but 30 the day after, so there's no like l'Il have these many and it will stick to those many'. Then the medicines, we have so many different species, we have donkeys and dogs, cats and monkeys and sheep and cows and goats. It's quite crazy adjusting to all of their needs, because all of their diets are different, the food costs, the medicines costs, the maintenance costs, it's beyond difficult."
14. Mid of monkey eating a banana

LEADIN:

Pakistan's biggest animal shelter is under financial pressure as inflation climbs.

Soaring coats of food, medicines and transport for almost 700 animals is draining the funds of the Ayesha Chundrigar Foundation.

STORYLINE:

Gloves go on before the cage is opened.

Staff from the ACF animal shelter have been called out to a stray cat.

They find severe burns on its back and stomach.

The animal is carefully loaded into a carrier, ready to be taken back to the shelter's veterinary clinic.

The cat was found injured in a residential area of Karachi and a member of public alerted the ACF team.


"She stayed with me for two days, I think. Initially the wound dried up, but then I think, through the night it scratched it and it started bleeding again, and she's in pain."


It takes in dogs and cats.









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